Only a fool would dump MORE water (money) into a bucket that he KNOWS is full of holes.

No sympathy for Obama.There is no 'learning curve' for a presidency.

He either does the job or not. And truth be told, he's doing a horrible job. His press agency (ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/PBS/CNN) has been working overtime
to boost up 'the glorious leader' and his poll numbers keep on dropping.

He is an embarassment to any American who wants freedom and less government.

Washington needs to stop the spending madness. The 3.69 trillion budget gives us a staggering new debt of 9.3 trillion. This is more
debt than has been accumulated by all previous presidents from George Washington through the George W. Bush presidency.

That's perhaps the funniest thing I've seen here on ATS in a long time.

Wow, what kind of sentiment could bring about actual pity for this man?

And not to say he's not a good human being, but let's look at the facts here.

Obama campaigned on change. Said he could bring it, nobody else could. Now granted he didn't say how long it would take, or that it would be done
really soon, but he said it.

And he won.

So in my brain, that means that HE has to do what he said he was going to do, regardless of the circumstances. It's not like he went into this thing
blind. It's not like he didn't know what he was getting himself into.

He knew what problems he faced, he knew what kind of challenges were ahead of him and he SAID he had the solutions. Alright, well where are they?

I am sorry but I am also a Canadian, and I will give NO BREAK to a politician who is in charge of the free world, many of you may disagree, but the
fact is that we follow the US, most nations to do to some extent anyway.

And if he wanted to step up to the plate, and sweep us all off our feet with promises of better decisions and transparency, then I expect those thigns
from him or he's to be treated like any other dirty politican that has ever been.

It's simply the way these things work. Yes he's got a monumental challenge ahead of him, and he probably won't see a 2nd term due to that fact,
but he made his bed, now he's got to sleep in it.

He is President of the US; he gets no breaks at all; not from me, not from the task(s) he has at hand.

He wanted the position, period. Well now he has it and he has to deal with the hand that was dealt him, just as every President before him has had to
do.

I don't see the employment situation getting any better, I don't see the overall economic situation getting any better, I don't see any advances in
international relationships, and I don't see any advances in education or healthcare.

Remember this?: Yes We Can!
Can WHAT???
Can spend taxpayer money to save failing businesses that, by the very nature of capitalism, should have been allowed to fail, and probably will
anyway?
Can print more money as he spends it, thus devalueing the dollar even further than it already was?
Can march the sheeple down the road of rightousness, even though it is clearly marked 'Dead End: No Outlet'?
Can attempt to force more and more Federal control over the sovereignty of the states?

Originally posted by PieKeeper
Please tell us. What has he done that's so wrong?

You're gonna have to make some points if you're going to claim such a thing.

1) Quadrupled the debt in his 1st 100 days.
2) Took over 2 auto makers, and redefined who got what out of the banruptcy so that his buddies got the biggest pound of flesh over the bond holders
who should have been first. Basicly he decided that contracts and current bancruptcy law doesn't apply to him. This means people are less likely to
invest in companies if they now know that the laws about who gets what are subject to presidential whim.
3) Took over banks
4) Gave a billion to ACORN, who is being charged with thousands of counts of faking ballots for him in the last election.
5) Refuses to allow debate on topics that are critical to the country, ie health care.
6) Believes in redistributive gov't.
7) Doesn't agree with the 1st and 2nd ammendment and wants them scrapped.
8) Contrary to precedent he now only takes "questions" that are pre-approved at his press confrences. If honest questions and debate are blocked
then it's not democracy.

How about already spending 1.8 trillion dollars since he became president, how about making the government bigger under an economic crisis, how about
1 more trillion to jump start a health care reform that will give power to big insurance to go after business and force them to give health care to
employees or be penalized, still the 40% that is still uninsured due to been unemployed will not get insurance at all.

How about forgetting that he gave hope to the people to make them priority under his administration to take those priorities and prop the financial
system at the expenses of the tax payer.

Hum what else, is so much he has done in 6 months is just amazing what he will do in the next 6.

I can see some of those as not so good, BUT may be an end to a means we can't yet understand?

As for the auto insurance, we do it that way up here and it is great..

War budget??? I think that is great too, start concentrating on sustainability and feeding his own country.....

Some of the other thins I also see as helping in the long run, and a few may have also been out of his hands as well....

Not all presidents are going to overstep their bounds and break laws like Bush....

he DOES have regulations he is forced to follow until he can turn thiongs around step y step through congress....

He DOES have to follow rules, even though Bush violated the rules, dosen't mean everyone else will etc...

Good for you auto-wise, but here, he's caused the loss of thousands of jobs
War budget? Win the war first, THEN cut the damn budget. That's like a car race where they start skimping on gas half-way thru a race!
What laws did Bush break?
Nope on regulations. Executive order is how he's doing it to avoid having the public know what he's doing.
What rules did Bush violate?

And just an aside here, no big fan of Bush but, can't we focus on Obama? He's the one in office now. Continuing to bash Bush is just a weak excuse
for Obama's mistakes.

George Bush was given a full bucket with no holes in it, to fairly distribute water to the people and organizatioons who needed it.... He then
proceeded to DUMP the bucket, and then fill it full of holes so that it couldn't be filled up again.

Bush is no longer President and you people STILL won't give HIM a break.

Am I the only ATSer smart enough to vote Nader? Or is that still not "cool" with the kids.

Hrm. Vote Independent. There's no justifiable reason to vote Repub/Dem, as they're basically the same party, and they have both been running the
country into the ground, equally, for the last 3 decades

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